The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20
THE WEEKS NEWS.
Recent Events RetOld I'm Brief Para
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graphs for the Weekly Sentinel.
Several of the Pan Handle train robbers
have confessed.
The business portion of Crescent City,
Fla, was destroyed by fire.
Four thousand families are destitute in
the drought district of Texas.
The late Ben Harper, of Rock Island,
left an estate valued at 100000.
Alexander R Lawton, OF Georgia, has
been appointed Minister to Austria.
The Nickle Plate Road will be sold at
public auction in Cleveland, May 10.
Ten thousand people witnessed the exc
cution of f. S. Blum at Cassyille, Mo.
Mrs. B. S. Smoot, seyenteen-year-old
bride, suicided with poison at Topeka, Kas.
Twenty-seven buildings in the village of
Ainsworth, Iowa, were destroyed by fire.
Chief Justice David K. Cartier, of the
Supreme Court of the District OF Colum-
bis, is dead.
The Dennison Hotel, at Indianapolis,
was purchased Friday by +. b. Martindale
for 100000.
Nine bishops and 100 clergymen took
part in the funeral of Bishop Lee at Will
mington Del.
The failures throughout the United
States for the seven days ending April 10
were only 146
By the premature explosion of blast in
a mine at Buena Vista, Colo, six men were
killed and seven wounded.
The amount OF the defalcation of Water
Register Michael Murphy, OF Hoboken, is
thought to be about 1900.
The carpenters strike in Chicago is off,
and the men are returning to work at 30
cents an hour and eight hours.
The hotel clerk who stole Fanny Daven-
ports diamonds has been sentenced to five
years imprisonment at Memphis.
William Bohde, Of Cincinnati, has been
acquitted of the murder of Fred Kylius,
the seducer of the formers daughter.
1t is stated that the entire surplus wheat
crop Of California has been cornered by
the Nevada Bank and John w. Mackay.
George Werner, a school teacher, has fed
from Milwaukee to avoid arrest tor causing
the death OF pupil whom he punished.
Jim Bates, a notorious desperate and
escaped convict, was shot and killed by
officers in the mountains near Chattanooga.
The Governor of Wisconsin, at the re-
quest of many influential citizens, has
vetoed the bill to prohibit stock gambling.
Daniel Jewell. wife-murderer, was ex-
ecuted Friday in the jail-yard at st. Louis.
Ben Brown, negro, was hanged at Nash
vile.
A mail pouch which left the Louisville
postoffice early Thursday evening was soon
afterward found empty on railway plat
form.
On farm near Lima, Ohio, Joseph Burch
killed his wife with hammer and hanged
himself by means Of bark twisted into
moose
Senator Allison predicts the aceumula-
ton of s9O,0O00 900 additional surplus by
December /, unless there be special SEES
sion of Congress,
In accordance with the report OF Cardinal
Gibbons, the congregation of the Sacred
College at Rome has decided TO recognize
the knights of Labor.
Mr.. Parnen and other Irish leaders are
endeavoring to form at Dublin a wooden
manufacturing and exporting company
with capital of $50O,OOO.
The wife OF Secretary WhitDev. desiring
to commemorate the christening of her in
FAINT daughter, gave $1,000 to st. Johns
orphanage in Washington.
1t has been discovered that severa' hun
dred thousand dollars in spurious Virginia
bonds, known as "Riddleberger Threes,"
are on sale in Northern cities.
cyclone friday swept IN narrow
path through st. ClairsVille and Martins
Ferry, Ohio, wrecking nearly 300 houses,
but causing little or no loss OF life.
Herbert Hanes, student at Delaware
College, became insane from overstudy,
burned his fathers barn, near Bellbr00k,
Ohio, and was sent to the Dayton Asylum.
James s. Delano, who entered the Treas
ury Department in 1862, and rose to the
position OF Deputy Second Comptroller
died of heart disease in Washington Thurs
day night.
In the Criminal Court at Chicago. Thurs
day, w. ]. lehman and Max Klauoer,
formerly book-keeper and porter in the
cloak factory of Felix Adler, pleaded
guilty to the charge Of stealing $500